State BN chief says any alliance will be announced after Umno supreme council meeting.
Oct 7, 2026
A former Buddhist monk in Thailand was convicted on Wednesday of misusing donations to a highly praised hospice he established for people with HIV/Aids and given the maximum term of 50 years in prison. Alongkot Poonmook, formerly known as Phra Ratcha Wisutthiprachanat, was forced to leave the monkhood after he was arrested last year along with an associate, Seksan Sapsubbsakul, who served as a fundraiser for the project. The Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases found both...
Noorizwan's family seeks concrete answers from authorities.
They claim the state ruler acted without menteri besar's advice.
'Malaysia breaking ranks by welcoming him, this will bury 5PC for good.'
A Singapore court on Oct. 6 sentenced an Indonesian seafarer to 10 months in jail and six strokes of the cane for trying to board a flight at Changi Airport with a knife hidden in his shoe.
Laotian police seized 521 kg of crystal methamphetamine as it was being loaded onto a private jet at Luang Prabang International Airport earlier this month, a shipment Malaysian police say was bound for Manila.
A 47-year-old man will be charged on Thursday over a series of perfume thefts at Changi Airport, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said on Wednesday. The thefts date back to November last year and involved almost S$1,410 (US$1,102) worth of perfume, the police said in a news release. SPF said it was alerted to the first theft on November 5, 2025, after a retail assistant discovered that a box of perfume was missing from a shop’s display shelf. Closed-circuit television footage showed that the...
'Let them save their own company; the government has other priorities.'
Malaysia’s Melaka will hold a state election on November 14 as the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition nears a pact with Islamist rivals, leaving Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s alliance facing another difficult contest after a string of recent defeats. The filing of nominations would begin on October 31 and early voting on November 10, Election Commission chairman Ramlan Harun said on Wednesday. A total of 687,897 registered voters are eligible to elect the state’s 28 assembly members, with...
PARLIAMENT | Isnaraissah compares it against govt's recent swift action on Tabung Haji, Felda and UiTM.
He warns extending the increase to foreigners would further burden businesses.
Singapore occupies a “peculiarly sensitive existential point” as it seeks to retain strategic options amid a great power rivalry, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan has said, doubling down on the city state’s stance of refusing to take sides. He also warned that the global landscape would remain unsettled if China and the United States failed to address their respective domestic issues. Speaking at the Milken Institute Asia Summit 2026 in Singapore on Wednesday, Balakrishnan identified...